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Two people who were working as pollsters for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) were stabbed by unknown assailants on June 15, close to the party's headquarters in Ankara. 

Merve Tekin, 26, and Mahmut Çelik, 38, were stabbed and injured around 100 meters from the HDP office in Ankara's Tunal? neighborhood. 

The father of the suspect arrested over the charge of leading the twin blasts at the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r has spoken out on how his son had been deceived to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), news website Radikal reported on June 15.

Fourteen people have been arrested June 14 in Turkey?s southeastern province of Diyarbak?r, over the killings of four people in clashes on June 9 between rival Kurdish groups.

Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirta? has said he fears that forces linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are awaiting an order to stage attacks across Turkey, adding that some forces wanted to create an environment of chaos in Turkey.

A suspect who was detained on allegations of perpetrating a twin bomb attack on June 5 at a Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r was arrested on June 10.

At least two people were killed in an armed assault and clashes afterwards in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on June 9, according to the governor, as a local prosecutor announced that the death toll was at three.

The death toll in the twin bombings at a Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) rally in Turkey?s southeastern province of Diyarbak?r has risen to three, with 17-year-old Civan Arslan succumbing to his injuries while in a hospital on June 8, three days after the bombing, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

Turkey?s Roma and Yazidi populations will be represented in parliament for the first time, as main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) Roma candidate Özcan Purçu and Peoples? Democratic Party (HDP) Yazidi candidates Feleknas Uca and Ali Atalan all secured seats in the June 7 elections. 

Unknown assailants opened fire on a coffee shop in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r from inside a car, injuring three people sitting in front of the shop late June 6, state-run Anadolu Agency reported. 

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has announced that a suspect has been detained over the June 5 bomb attack at a Kurdish problem-focused Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) rally in southeastern Turkey.

Two people were killed and over 100 were injured June 5 in the twin blasts before the HDP's rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r.